The integration of a video system within digital towers presents unique challenges in optimizing efficiency and maintaining reliability. Ensuring seamless integration requires addressing technical complexities, such as data synchronization and transmission speed, to provide real-time video feeds that meet strict regulatory standards. Another challenge involves ensuring uninterrupted connectivity, especially in remote or less accessible locations. Cybersecurity concerns further complicates the integration process. Despite these challenges, a well-implemented video system enhances airside monitoring, providing critical visual information for decision-making in airside operations.
Logipix’s DTVA address these challenges with unparalleled efficiency and reliability. It ensures a seamless, comprehensive overview of the airside area, replicating the ATC tower window experience. Utilizing extreme high-resolution panoramic cameras, the system surpasses the limits of naked-eye vision, providing detailed images crucial for airside monitoring. With an impressively low-latency live video stream, DTVA delivers real-time data, meeting the demand for swift decision-making. Furthermore, Logipix offers advanced Computer Vision, providing AI-powered decision-making support and enhanced overall situational awareness.
DTVA delivers low-latency, real-time video streams for Digital Tower systems and improves situational awareness by AI-powered Computer Vision.
■ DTVA offers a 360-degree view of the airside, replicating the perspective of traditional towers. It achieves this with a level of detail that surpasses the capabilities of the human eye, both day and night.
■ DTVA’s versatility extends beyond Digital Towers, making it a valuable solution for Emergency Towers, Contingency Towers, and Remote Towers.
■ The solution offers AI-powered Computer Vision to detect, classify and analyze the movements of all objects, whether they are cooperative or non-cooperative.
■ Utilizing Augmented Reality, the solution enriches the user experience by providing additional visual information about objects. It seamlessly gathers and visualize relevant data from integrated systems, enhancing the overall understanding of the monitored environment.
■ Empowered by Real-Time Decision Making Support, the system aids in prioritizing situations, directing operators’ attention to the most critical and urgent issues.
Logipix’s DTVA offers a comprehensive view through cutting-edge 300-960 MP Panorama cameras, delivering a seamless perspective similar to the traditional ATC tower. Operators benefit from advanced zoom functions, enabling them to effortlessly obtain detailed views of distant objects at a glance.
Thanks to AI-powered monitoring operators gain a comprehensive understanding of the location and movements of various elements in the airside environment, including aircraft, vehicles, personnel, wildlife and FOD.
Logipix AI can identify patterns and anomalies in movements that might be challenging for human operators to discern. This predictive capability is crucial for early detection of potential conflicts or irregularities, enabling proactive decision-making to maintain a safe and efficient airfield environment.
The RTDMS optimizes the front end visualization of all signals generated in the system, as it highlights only the most relevant or urgent situations. This function makes it possible to efficiently handle the large number of situations arise.
Specifically positioned high-resolution cameras provides real-time video streams of aircraft during approach and landing. These streams are displayed in the DTVA software within the digital tower control room, enabling air traffic controllers to closely monitor the aircraft’s position, altitude, and alignment with the glide path. Additionally, operators can verify the proper release of the aircraft’s landing gear.
The DTVA solution provides advanced AI-powered Video Content Analysis for automatic detection and tracking of approaching aircraft. The system also allows for automatic zoom, providing operators with a detailed view of the aircraft during critical phases of flight and alerts them in case of any deviation from the proper glide path.
Thanks to Logipix thermal cameras, informative images can be captured even at night and in challenging weather conditions. In this way, the system assists controllers in identifying any anomalies and taking appropriate actions if necessary, even in limited visibility conditions.
Financial Benefits
■ Remote operations – Deploying DTVA as a Remote Tower eliminates the need for constructing a physical tower, thereby reducing infrastructure costs and operational expenses.
■ Multi-aerodrome operations – DTVA enables cost-effective remote monitoring of airside activities across multiple airports from a centralized Remote Tower Center (RTC), especially beneficial for small or medium-sized airports, eliminating the necessity of constructing individual ATC towers.
■ Fast substitution – Rapid deployment of a Contingency Tower through DTVA ensures a faster recovery from the operational challenges induced by the unexpected absence of the ATC tower, minimizing disruptions and potential financial losses.
■ Minimizing installation costs – Since only a few panorama cameras are required to realize a 360-degree view, it is possible to reduce both the camera mounting and network infrastructure expenses.
■ Effortless maintenance – The hardware of the system consists of only a few devices, moreover the panorama cameras are equipped with automatic self-cleaning and deicing systems.
Our engineers have developed leading-edge technologies ensuring long-term system durability, avoiding physical and technological obsolescence..
Operational Benefits
■ Quick visual information access – The digital visual representation of the monitored area enables operators to access versatile information effortlessly and at a glance, both individually at their workstations and collectively through a large video wall. This supports quicker and more informed decision-making in real-time scenarios.
■ Low-latency, high fps – DTVA ensures less than 1-second latency and 20 fps video streams, guaranteeing that operators receive nearly instantaneous visual feedback with smooth and seamless visualization.
■ Computer Vision – Logipix AI can process vast amounts of data rapidly, allowing for real-time analysis of multiple object movements concurrently. This capability significantly enhances the Digital Tower’s ability to detect, track, and predict the trajectories of various aircraft and other objects on the airside.
■ Increased situational awareness – DTVA enables operators to make well-informed decisions, efficiently respond to emergencies, and coordinate activities.
■ Real-time Decision Making Support – DTVA always highlights the most relevant situations on screen using Augmented Reality. Smart display functions guide the focus of operators. The entire front-end interface is designed to facilitate the work of the ATC.
LAARS automatically tracks both cooperative and non-cooperative objects within the monitored area. This ensure that operators are always aware of objects’ real-time and historical location and they can lock automatic tracking on selected objects.
The system classifies various objects with high precision. Operators can utilize this function to filter for airplanes, vehicles, personnel, and the system can also generate alerts for unauthorized entry, FOD and animal presence in the airside area.
This low-level function allows to divide the airside area based on the physical layout and virtually assign airside rules to these areas with different conditions.
LAARS provides real-time, 2-level runway incursion detection with less then 1 second latency. It detects and alerts regarding airplanes, ground vehicles, personnel, and even animals, whose unauthorized presence nearby or on the runway poses a potential source of incidents.
The function allows air traffic controllers to have an enhanced visual representation of the aircraft’s approach and provides AI-based information to support their decision-making process.
LAARS automatically registers the very moment of all airplane landings and take-offs, and saves evidence images. In case the LAARS receives transponder information, it can automatically calculate the exact time that the airplanes spend on the airport.
Virtual fence function makes it possible to assign different airside rules to temporarily designated areas.
LAARS is able to automatically detect several types of traffic violations throughout the airside. Several rules can be configured for both cooperative and non-cooperative objects.
LAARS helps prevent critical incidents on the airside. The system analyses the motion of moving objects and alerts operators in time to assist pilots and drivers to avoid collisions.
The function defines and projects proximity areas around tracked objects. The size of the proximity areas dynamically varies based on the object’s type, status, speed, and airside zone.
Automatic FOD detection function helps avoid serious incidents at the airside. The size of the smallest detectable FOD depends only on the applied resolution.
LAARS allows for the utilization of data originating from the AIDB. The AIDB serves as a comprehensive repository providing information on runway parameters, taxiways, airplane stands, navigational aids and airport services. Integrating these diverse sets of data within LAARS enables a more holistic view and analysis of airport operations.
MLAT helps tracking aircraft that might not be equipped with ADS-B or radar transponders, improving overall surveillance coverage and accuracy. Integrating MLAT data within LAARS enhances the situational awareness for air traffic controllers and airport operators.
ADS-B transmits real-time aircraft data, including identity and GPS-based position. This data can be utilized in LAARS for more precise positioning on the interactive map and it can be also visualized on the informational object labels.
Integrating A-SMGCS data within LAARS allows for a more comprehensive understanding of ground movements. This integration aids in preventing collisions, reducing runway incursions, optimizing ground traffic flow, and enhancing safety protocols for aircraft and vehicle operations on the airport surface.
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